25 January 2002
The Prime Minister, with the agreement of the Defence Secretary, has approved the appointment of Ian Andrews to succeed Sir Roger Jackling KCB CBE, as 2nd Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence. Sir Roger is to become Head of the new Defence Academy in February.
Ian Andrews, 48, joined the MOD in 1975 and has spent half his career outside Whitehall, in project management and service delivery. His appointment underlines the importance now attached to people with a track record of public sector reform and modernisation.
Notes for Editors
Ian Andrews joined the Ministry of Defence as an Administration Trainee in 1975 after studying Geography at Bristol University. After a series of appointments in equipment procurement, personnel policy, support to defence export sales, and as the Private Secretary to the then 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, he served for a year as an officer in the Regular Army in Germany while on unpaid leave of absence from the Civil Service. On his return to the MOD he spent two years in a management role in HM Naval Base, Rosyth before attending the NATO Defense College in Rome. In 1984, he joined the newly formed Defence Arms Control Unit and was Assistant Private Secretary to the then Secretary of State for Defence from 1986 to 1988. This was followed by appointments as the Head of the Department’s Defence Lands Secretariat and as the Head of the Resources and Programmes Branch for the Army during the post-Cold War review of defence policy (Options for Change).
From 1993 to 1995 he was the senior Ministry of Defence Civil Servant on the staff of the British Forces in Germany and then became one of the Managing Directors of the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (DERA). DERA was at that time a Trading Fund Agency.
He was appointed Chief Executive of what is now the Defence Estates Agency in 1998 with a staff of some 1400. Over the last four years, he has been responsible for the development of the Department’s Strategy for its Estate ("In Trust and on Trust" published in 2000) and of a new procurement process which has placed the MOD at the forefront of wider government initiatives to obtain better value for money from expenditure on construction by improving the performance of the public sector as a client, including generating £700m of income through the sale of surplus defence estate.
Ian Andrews is married with two sons and one daughter.
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